Kommentare

Kommentar von hobbidaggy

on 2018-02-04T17:57:59-06:00

A lot of people think the Void Elves are lore-less and were a rushed race. However my thoughts are that they are new both in-game and lore-wise. Because of this the lore is still being written for them. The quest leading to them contains a lot of the lore needed to explain why they are what they are. I feel that there is enough to explain them, but that because there isn\u2019t any established lore for a long period people are put off. I just hope that they aren\u2019t put aside and that Umbric is a major player in the stories coming forward. We need to see all of the allied races make a statement in the game to establish them, otherwise they will literally feel as just a reskin and nobody will care for them as a race.

Kommentar von nerdgirl1993

on 2018-02-04T18:05:34-06:00

Correction: Demidos is not in Azeroth, but rather in AU Draenor.

Kommentar von Menelvagor

on 2018-02-04T18:10:26-06:00

Great VE summary. Nobble makes the most of what little lore is out there.

Kommentar von Unconqueredfun

on 2018-02-04T18:26:01-06:00

Have to admit I'm a little confused as to how the alliance is healing anything in Silithus. It literally ends the same for horde and alliance sofar and we know everyone's going to fight for it in BFA. Leaves me puzzled.\r\rAt any rate. A friend told me "Void elves are like what Dan is to a Street fighter roster. There to fill out space and be a copy of somebody else but with a gimmick that can break the balance on it's knees." I dunno if the spell casting pushback is that bad. Void elves do feel like a little bit of a cop-out when you already had high elves being alliance already. But maybe they got other plans for high elves? Do we really need more elves?\r\rNot that I mind, I play an elf, but I think we're over out elf quota here.

Kommentar von hobbidaggy

on 2018-02-04T18:52:08-06:00

I think they are afraid to put high elves on a side. You have a few in silvermoon as High Elf Pilgrims and you also have the Highborne in Teldrassil, so both being basically the same race and both heavily fought over they decided that neither cane have them and instead gave each the Void Elf (basically one but void if you look at the starting VElf zone there are High Elf Scholars so if you\u2019re a High Elf or Blood Elf you choose that yourself in your own head) and Nightborne (basically one but nightwell changed)\r\rIf either ended up with a High Elf or Highbourne I think there would be a riot, so this was the closest they could get I think without angering either side dramatically

Kommentar von Hanatos

on 2018-02-04T19:46:15-06:00

I WANT MY ETHEREAL.

Kommentar von leowow

on 2018-02-04T20:17:57-06:00

Blizzard had the big opportunity to introduce High Elves for Alliance as playable race and wasted it with these Void elves. They got 5 minutes of Lore and they became a playable race. Seems like a joke but its not. Sad.

Kommentar von Brockp

on 2018-02-04T20:43:01-06:00

No one has yet to be able to give a definitive explanation of how void elves are any different than shadow priests. SPs have been harnessing the power of the void since, well, the beginning. Where were the VEs? That entire storyline of Alleria\u2019s in-game felt like a joke playing as a SP. Like, \u201c....um, hey.... I may know a thing or two about this new toy you just found. And by the way, I could\u2019ve cleansed that na\u2019ru instead of destroy it...\u201d To me, it just feels like SPs became a race. A very rushed race that was invented to finally give the Alliance the blood elves they\u2019ve always wanted since TBC. I just don\u2019t see any fundamental difference in terms of how they perceive and use the void. The lore that I\u2019ve come to love as playing a SP seems to now be wasted on this half-baked concept. An entire spec was built on the fundamental thing that now apparently belongs to one race.

Kommentar von Joshmaul

on 2018-02-04T22:00:28-06:00

I think they are afraid to put high elves on a side.\r\rHigh elves are on a side, is the thing. They've been with the Alliance under Vereesa's direction since Wrath of the Lich King, in the form of the Silver Covenant.\r\rAs to the argument of why void elves as opposed to high elves: Ultimately, I think it comes down to the look. The other subspecies (Highmountain, Lightforged, Nightborne) look distinctive enough from the races on which they're based to give them their own unique style. The only true difference appearance-wise between high elves and blood elves is the eye color (blue as opposed to green). Void elves, at least, give the idea of "Alliance blood elves" a bit more color - literally - and their racials are radically different enough from blood elves to make them distinctive. Plus, they have void tentacles in their hair. :D

Kommentar von Arraya

on 2018-02-04T23:52:28-06:00

I think they are afraid to put high elves on a side.\r\rHigh elves are on a side, is the thing. They've been with the Alliance under Vereesa's direction since Wrath of the Lich King, in the form of the Silver Covenant.\r\rAs to the argument of why void elves as opposed to high elves: Ultimately, I think it comes down to the look. The other subspecies (Highmountain, Lightforged, Nightborne) look distinctive enough from the races on which they're based to give them their own unique style. The only true difference appearance-wise between high elves and blood elves is the eye color (blue as opposed to green). Void elves, at least, give the idea of "Alliance blood elves" a bit more color - literally - and their racials are radically different enough from blood elves to make them distinctive. Plus, they have void tentacles in their hair. :D\r\rBut adding High Elves would've prevented them from adding yet *another* Blood Elf model allied race :'(\rThey should've just given us Quel'dorei skin color \/ hair color options... unless they plan on making High Elves way more HD and cooler than anything ever seen haha

Kommentar von Nickname404

on 2018-02-05T00:52:21-06:00

Blizzard had the big opportunity to introduce High Elves for Alliance as playable race and wasted it with these Void elves. They got 5 minutes of Lore and they became a playable race. Seems like a joke but its not. Sad.\r\rI absolutely agree. Void elves look like characters from fanfics which you wrote when you was 15. Boring lore, no common ideas with Alliance, no approves they will be loyal. Where are normal high elves?.. \r\rThey would be more interesting. They have pale skin compare with blood elves, blue eyes (not like DK, not so glowing), more light hair. Not so much for customisation, but all allied races have a few options too. If you ask how we should differ them from DK-blood elves... We have pandarens. They look same for both factions.

Kommentar von Nickname404

on 2018-02-05T01:03:08-06:00

I always laugh about "grey morality". Oh, cruel hellish immoral Light don't let the poor Void devour and enslave all universe! What a shame. Maybe I'm too old-fashioned, but I think talking about grey morality in these conditions is ridiculous.

Kommentar von Shelassa

on 2018-02-05T01:22:20-06:00

No one has yet to be able to give a definitive explanation of how void elves are any different than shadow priests\rTo me, the difference between the Shadow Priests and the Void Elves seems similar to the difference between Warlocks and Demon Hunters. Both Shadow Priests and Warlocks draw their power from an external source, while DHs and VElves seem to draw their power from themselves (inner demon for DHs, consumed corrupted Naaru for Alleria and the changes that the Velves went through in the scenario for them). VElf SP\/Warlocks being the ones who draw both from themselves and from outside source as well.\r\rIt is somewhat close to Lightforged vs. Holy Priests \/ Paladins and Death Knights vs the Forsaken. Technically, just like LF and VElves, The Ebon Blade and the Illidari are also Allied Faction that consist of only one class but multiple races x)

Kommentar von Joshmaul

Not likely, considering that even with the minor differences between high elves and blood elves, they are in essence the same people. I think the model would virtually be the same, save for the eyes, and maybe a paler skin shade compared to the sort of "autumnal" colors of the blood elves. Even the hairstyles and colors would not be so different.

We have pandarens. They look same for both factions.

Not the same thing. The physical differences between high elves and blood elves do not exist for them - a pandaren is a pandaren, regardless of which flag they choose to fly.

Kommentar von Tekunin

on 2018-02-05T02:19:45-06:00

I appreciate the interest and attention paid to the lore, but good lord is that ridiculous voice\/inflection really necessary?

Kommentar von Jochteas

on 2018-02-05T06:44:26-06:00

It Still doesnt make sense though, at worse they would have told these void elves to leave the city, not the whole faction. Lord knows they would have just as easily set up shop in Undercity and had a good time. The concerns for the sunwell are real. No one bats an eye when the warlocks and the druids practice their magics for their factions in separate spaces because cross contamination would be bad for both. Yet the Blood Elves worried about the '~SUNWELL~' not being contaminated by the darkness of the void is somehow a slight? That's poor writing. There are so many better ways they could have gotten here yeesh.

Kommentar von rogueMatthias

on 2018-02-05T09:55:17-06:00

Surprised they didn't mention the Void Shardling. Clearly the best companion pet for a Void Elve :)

Kommentar von LyssaWoW

on 2018-02-05T15:53:58-06:00

TL;DR: Alleria did a thing. Here's Blood Void Elves for reasons. I love the new allied races, but this one felt very tacked on at the end and the only reason we got all that juicy Ethereal and Void speculation hype was to make a reason for this. I really hope that there is going to be some reprecussions for Alleria's actions and it's not just left on the pile of unanswered questions in WoW lore.

Kommentar von Cyberium

on 2018-02-05T23:18:44-06:00

Void elves are very forced, literally happened at the last patch of the expansion, Turalyon and Alleria aren't much better because of their long absence (and not very well presented in haste, I might add). I understand that they want the first ally races to be related to Legion, but Void Elves are young even by the standard of other new races.\r\rNightborne joining the Horde has at least their connection with the Blood Elves in terms of survival and addiction to magic, and conflicts with the Night Elves, what exactly do Void Elves have, aside from a long gone character who suddenly reemerge as a Void expert out of the blue, and somehow discovered other Void users in Silvermoon? This Void Elf population must be lower than even the Night Elves in vanilla lore. And why Elves? There are shadow priests in many races and somehow it just have to be another type elf, to conveniently tie up with an underdeveloped Alleria. For crying out loud, they could've lay out clues and hints about Void Elves way before Alleria, Void Elf is quite likely a last minute change, and a coarse one.\r\rIt's unfortunate that Vrykul aren't particularly affiliated with either side, and they are also more Horde like. If they join the Horde instead of Nightborne Alliance would be stuck with TWO elven races instead. Regardless, I dislike the Void Elves as much as Naruu and the re-tuned Draenei lore in BC, because they were created to add shaman into Alliance side, and lore shouldn't be twisted to justify awkward newcomers.

Kommentar von SilverDragon234

on 2018-02-06T12:18:31-06:00

I still believe the Nightborne should be Alliance in the place of Void Elves.